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Heaven Sent Gaming

written by Shigimori Shizuka

translated from Japanese by Tommy Greenwald

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the usage of images was given by the copyright
holders, Mario and Isabel of Heaven Sent Gaming.
They were not involved with the production of this
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original publisher It^R (Gold Yen / Golden Yen)
original author Shigimori Shizuka
translated by Tommy Greenwald

pg 1 Forward By The Translator
pg 2 Who is Heaven Sent Gaming?
pg 2 When did they start?
pg 3 Where do they come from?

pg 3 Country: The United States of America

pg 3 State: New Mexico | City: Albuquerque
pg 8 Our Own Little Coup
pg 9 Isabel Ruiz
pg 10 Mario Lucero
pg 11 Published Works

pg 11 Comics

pg 14 Games

pg 15 Music

pg 16 Novels

pg 18 Video

pg 19 Web
pg 20 Lack Of Updates

pg 21 Where can I find Heaven Sent Gaming?

pg 21 And on social media!
pg 21 How did we find out so much?

Forward By The Translator

Internet Legends is a Japanese book series
published by Golden Yen Publishing from the small
farming town of Pippu, Hokkaido. The series
focuses on internet celebrities from around the
world. The series has covered many topics
including; big social networking giants like Mark
Zuckerberg of Facebook and Tom Anderson of
MySpace, to big YouTubers like Toby
Turner/Tobuscus and the Vlogbrothers John and
Hank Green, to smaller self publishing websites like
Snafu Comics and the topic of this book is Heaven
Sent Gaming. The books have been distributed for
free since 2010, and the series spans 12 individual
books. I was lucky enough to be given the privilege
of doing the same by distributing the books in
English. This book, Heaven Sent Gaming is the
newest in the series, as of the time of writing this
forward, it was released on June 16, 2014. I took the
liberty of translating this book first since it covered
the broadest subject. Please enjoy, the book is
written for Japanese audiences, but should contain
valuable information for everyone to learn from.

Who is Heaven Sent Gaming?

Heaven Sent Gaming is Mario Lucero and
Isabel Ruiz. They have been together since
high-school, and are often referred to as
high-school sweethearts, they are also referred to
as a mom-and-pop entertainment production team.
They have created comics, games, music, novels,
video, and web entertainment.

When did they start?

As stated above, Mario and Isabel met in
high-school, a private Seventh-Day Adventist school
called Sandia View Academy. They have been
making things together even since then. In fact,
Heaven Sent Gaming was formed in order for Mario
and Isabel to get their ideas into the public, and for
them to spend more time together. Mario is a
designer and Isabel is an artist, and their ideas
melded together well. They went off to college
together in 2006, at Collins College in Tempe,
Arizona, and formed a team called Heaven Sent
Gaming, and joined a larger college game
development team called Our Own Little Coup.

Where do they come from?

Country: The United States of America

State: New Mexico | City: Albuquerque

Heaven Sent Gaming comes from The
United States of America is one of the world's
great powers. Alongside China, the U.K.,
France, Germany, Russia, and Japan. The
United States consists of a union of 50 states.
The capital of the U.S.A. is Washington D.C.

They are located is in the 47th state of
that union, New Mexico. The capital of the New
Mexico is Santa Fe, and the largest city is
Albuquerque. This state has a vibrant ancient
culture dating back to the native americans like
the Anasazi, Pueblo, Apache, and Navajo. The
history continues through the original Spanish
colonists, to the modern Americans. Much of the
culture, in the state, is alive and very much
celebrated. This is important especially in
metropolitan areas like Heaven Sent Gaming's
location in Albuquerque. Often times, in their
work they reference New Mexican staples, like
foods, such as Red and Green Chiles (local
spicy vegetable) and Sopapillas (fried bread).
They also reference locations such as the
Sandias (mountains to the east of the city), the
Bosque (forest surrounding the Rio Grande
which runs through the middle of the city). And
other references include local notables like Al
Hurricane (rock-and-roll singer), Susanna

Martinez and Bill Richardson (governors), and
Martin Chavez (mayor). The also reference
Western Wear and the Wild West in general.

They also reference their American
identity heavily, like Mario's personal inspiration
source of Johnny Cash, or Isabel's personal
inspiration of Walt Disney. Like most of the
culturally rich states of America, New Mexicans
tend to be proud Americans as well as proud of
their state identity. Mario's family comes from a
long line of American military. Isabel's family
hails from Mexico, but both of her brothers have
served in the American Army. They are very
proud of those that have served in American
military.

Another piece to understanding Heaven
Sent Gaming would be their lineage and family
histories. Mario's family history can be traced
back to a Spanish mercenary that served in the
American Revolution at George Washington's
side. His lineage could be described as

nuevomexicano with European, Portuguese,
Navajo, Pueblo, Italian, and others. Mario is the
middle-child, between two sisters. He came from
a family that was divorced, Mario's father
(Horacio Pargas) was a cowboy and his mother
was a working-class woman (Cathleen Lucero).
Mario was very proud that his dad was a
cowboy, and would often brag to his astounded
elementary school-mates when they see the
cowboy-hatted, spur-booted, pick-up truck
driving, western-wear wearing, dad picking up
Mario after school. He was a mama's boy,
however, so after the divorce he was raised by a
single mother until the age of 10. He attended
public school during elementary education, and
attended private schools from middle-to-high
school. He would often spend his summers with
his grandparents in Henderson, Nevada, near
Las Vegas. His grandpa (Joe Mariano Lucero)
was a trucker with Consolidated Freightways,
and his Nana (Antonia "Toni" Lucero) was a

homemaker. He promised that when his
grandfather retired he would move in with him.
So he did, when they moved back to
Albuquerque, he still would not be far from his
mom, so she supported the decision.

Isabel's family came from Mexico, and
can trace their lineage back to Spain and as far
back as El Cid. She herself is a first-generation
American, and is the youngest after two brothers.
Her father (Ismael Ruiz) has been a
business-man, auto mechanic, and teacher. Her
mother (Maria Ruiz) is a Master of Education
and graduated from the University of New
Mexico. Isabel is well-versed in martial arts, and
attended private Seventh-Day Adventist schools
throughout the majority of her school career. Not
much else is known about her history, so we will
decode her artistic expressions later. As stated
before, both Mario and Isabel met while
attending Sandia View Academy during
high-school.

The final and most important piece of the
puzzle, to understanding Heaven Sent Gaming,
is their religious backgrounds. Mario was raised
Catholic and even attended Catholic catechism.
He is currently a non-denominational Christian.
Isabel was raised Seventh-Day Adventist. But,
they are both devout Christians. In fact, the credo
for HSG is a Bible verse 1 Corinthians 9:25.

Japanese Living Bible:
New International Version:

Everyone who competes in the games goes into
strict training. They do it to get a crown that will
not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last
forever.

Our Own Little Coup

This was the college game design team
that Heaven Sent Gaming team was a part of.

The college game design team
comprised of several people. Notables of the
team include; Drew Cass, Mario Lucero, and
Isabel Ruiz. As stated before, Mario and Isabel
started Heaven Sent Gaming together. But,
another member from this team, as mentioned,
Drew Cass is a president of a company, in his
home state of Maine, called Paradigm Trading.
His company published the 2nd Edition of Lai
Wan: Tales of the Dreamwalker. Another
member of the old team, that is still active, is
Jason Waggoner. Jason is the current editor of
Heaven Sent Gaming.

Isabel Ruiz

bio

• Full Name: Isabel Ruiz

• Birth date: 1989, March 30

• Gender: Female

• Current Residence: Albuquerque

• Height: approx. 1.5m

• Eye Color: Brown

• Hair Color: Brown

• Distinguishing Features: Long dark brown hair,
dark skin, glasses, almond shaped eyes.

As promised in the "Where do they come
from?" section here is more information on
Isabel, since much of her history remains private.
Isabel Ruiz, the artist of Heaven Sent Gaming,
shares the same birth date as one of the most
revered artists of the 20th Century, Vincent van
Gogh. So, fascination with the arts should come
as no surprise. All anecdotal facts aside, her
art-style is much different from most of the typical
artists of this era. The artwork in her large
swathe of illustrations and comics are different
stylistically. According to a curator at Meguro
Museum of Art, "her art, at its core, is sharp;
reminiscent of the geometric designs found in
pueblo and New Mexico, or southwestern

American, artwork." At the same time the curator
described a softness. The curator at the Ghibli
Museum was able to better encapsulate the
softness of her work, "the work is similar to the
softness found throughout earlier Ub Iwerks
creations, there are sharp distinct geometric
designs, but the artist is expressing a gentle
view of a rough world. Much like other early
works by talented artists, Nick Park and Hayao
Miyazaki, they are attempting to build something
for us to feel, while still gently bringing their own
worlds to life."

photos (courtesy Heaven Sent Gaming)

Mario Lucero

bio

• Full Name: Mario J. Lucero

• Birth date: 1988, June 8

• Gender: Mario

• Current Residence: Albuquerque

• Height: approx. 1 .7m

• Eye Color: Green hazel

• Hair Color: Black

• Distinguishing Features: Black hair done in
various styles (usually pompadour), light skin, big
eyes with a birthmark above his left eye and one
in his right eye.

Mario Julian Lucero, known professionally
as simply Mario J. Lucero, is the designer of
Heaven Sent Gaming. Much of the information
on Mario can be found in the "Where do they
come from?" section. The only other information
that we could place here is that he was shy
around teachers, but was a class clown. During
elementary school teachers, we were able to
interview, referred to him as displaying "genius"
tendencies; specifically in the areas of originality,
and/or creativity. One high-school Literature
teacher noted a creative writing assignment, in
which Mario wrote "a convincing first hand
account of an angel and a demon during an

ancient uprising in the universe, leading to the
demon getting into heaven and the angel falling
from heaven". One final note would be that he
was slightly named after his grandpa, who is J.
M. Lucero, whereas Mario is M. J. Lucero.
photos (courtesy Heaven Sent Gaming)

Published Works

Since Heaven Sent Gaming is a
publisher, the most important thing to discuss is
their published works. We will be going over
them briefly as each could potentially be covered
in a book themselves.

Comics

Their two most successful/important
series are Reverie, Thad's World Destruction:
Before Destruction, and Karis.

Reverie is a panel comic, done in the
style of old American comic strips. The series
tells slice-of-life stories about a group of children.
The children are plant-based aliens from a planet
called Holiri (pronounced Hall-lur-ee). Though the
kids are aliens on an alien world, their lives
play-out similarly to human children. They work
jobs, they play games, they go to school, and
they have hobbies. Amalia, a red-headed girl

character, is good at everything. Bronjay, a
gray-hooded character, is silly, light-hearted, and
a bit ditzy. Bronwen, the younger brother of
Bronjay, is a genius that builds mecha and other
scientific marvels. Hoopes, a dread-locked
character, is a bit ditzy like his best friend
Bronjay but sometimes shows genius
tendencies. Milly, a blonde-haired character, is
similar to Bronjay in that he is ditzy, but she is
much more charismatic and outgoing. Their
adventures center around their imagination and
situations arising out of their ditzy behaviors.

Thad's World Destruction: Before
Destruction, is American comic done in a
Japanese comic style. It is a prequel for a
future-planned video game series. The comic is
a school-life style comic that tells a heavily
fictionalized autobiographical story about Mario
and Isabel's high-school experience. The story
tells a paranormal version of the events that
actually took place. It involves a conspiracy

theory involving an ancient prophecy, and
government agents. The characters Isabel and
Art take the role of secret agents, spying on
three boys. Byron, the brawn of the group. Kevin,
the brain of the group. And Mario, the heart of the
group. The story is based on a story written in
high-school by the real-life Mario Lucero, Kevin
Garner, Byron Alvarez, and Isabel Ruiz.

Karis is a story about two angels
attending college. This universe from this story
serves as the background for all of Heaven Sent
Gaming's fictional worlds. Angels, demons, jinn,
reapers, and vanguards, these are all important
in Heaven Sent Gaming lore. Angels are the
good servants of God, demons are the enemies
of God and his angels, reapers are ancient
angels that are also the basis of pagan gods,
and vanguards are the protectors of the balance
between the heavenly and earthly realms.

Other comic stories include; BladeChick,
Jinn, Koki'o Shade and Monkey, and Mouton.

BladeChick is a superhero story starring
a bookworm named Alexia that becomes a
superhero named BladeChick in her times of
need.

Jinn is a monster-hunting series that was
devised by Heaven Sent Gaming. The cover and
first page were drawn by a guest artist that goes
by the name X-Arielle. She is a famous
DeviantArt user.

Koki'o Shade and Monkey is a samurai
and ninja story telling the story of a samurai
Obama and a ninja W. Bush. They are both
under their sensei's Washington and Lincoln.

Mouton a football playing superhero. He
appears to be fat, but he is actually just
compressed muscle and can perform
superhuman feats.

Games

In college, they created several games.
Including a puzzle game called Balance and a

prototype of a beat-em-up Thad's World
Destruction. Game production has ceased until
they can get a dedicated programmer.

Music

Heaven Sent Gaming's first publishment
was a demo album written by an old high-school
friend named John Marler. The demo was title
All We Are. The album was for Marler's band
named Life Never Lost. According to iTunes the

track listing is as follows:

1.

Your Grace 3:47

8.

Overdazed 4:52

2.

Remember 4: 14

9.

All We Are 4 A 1

3.

Try 4:10

10.

19 Years 3:48

4.

Amazing 3:45

11.

Psalm 69 0:40

5.

/ Want to See Your

12.

Wa/f 2:29

Face 3:57

13.

Wood Blocks 2:42

6.

Pressuring Walls

14.

Try (Cwookie

2:43

Remonster) 4:08

7.

On the Floor 2:48

The band, Life Never Lost, is still active, and has
produced another album, an E.P., called "Rgh!
(Wookie Sound With Inflection of Hope)". The
original demo album never made any sales

revenue, and never charted. It is, never-the-less,
important for launching Heaven Sent Gaming's
publishing career. Heaven Sent Gaming has
continued to be supportive of local New Mexican
musicians and of Life Never Lost in particular.

Mario Lucero himself performs Johnny
Cash-style country-music live. But, has only
released a single, titled Intro, Yo which is a
rock-style song. He intends to produce an album,
but no concrete release has been announced.

Novels

Heaven Sent Gaming has produced four
novels. Craft, Digital Domain, Iron, and Many:
The Blog of a Space Probe.

Many: The Blog of a Space Probe is a
unique blog-style-novel that tells the story of a
futuristic space-probe. The main character,
Khora has a child-like mind that brings about a
thought provoking take on the future exploration
of our universe. The majority of the earliest post

dealt with smaller situations involving Khora. But,
they have escalated to include a tyrannical
government and a potential ending to space
exploration.

Iron is a western style story involving a
cowboy / buffalo soldier named Tom Marcus,
turned vanguard, turned treasure hunter. As
stated in the Comics "Karis" section a vanguard
protects the balance between realms. Tom
Marcus was on a vanguard mission, to chase
down a golem, but could not find the golem. So
he instead turned to life as a treasure hunter.

Craft started as a Minecraft based story.
Instead it has become something unique. It is a
story about a female NYPD officer that becomes
teleported to another world. She fights in this
digital looking world against a person named
Caesar and his army.

Digital Domain is about a small cast of
characters playing around in a futuristic MMO.

Video

Mario and Isabel perform let's plays under
the name HSGplays and vlogs under the name
Mario's vlog.

HSGplays is a video series starring
Mario and Isabel as they play through video
games. The gameplay footage is accompanied
by audio commentary about their game they are
playing.

Mario's vlogs are a set of videos that
display the daily lives of Mario and Isabel. The
video usually contain quick cuts, but are
sometimes just raw footage.

Web

aywv is Heaven Sent Gaming's video
game related news feed. The news comes from
across the entire video game industry. And, has
been known to break news before other game
news sites.

Lack Of Updates

Heaven Sent Gaming is known for their
lack of updates, but this has real-world origins.
Fans of the popular webcomic Megatokyo are
known for being patient. But, Heaven Sent
Gaming's fans must be saints.

Mario and Isabel left college initially to
take care Mario's grandparents, as you heard
before, they were major influences on his life.
Isabel accompanied and aided Mario during this
time. It was a very heart-wrenching time for him,
and they both but their lives aside during their
time as caregivers. The grandparents had
dementia, and both Mario and Isabel have sworn
to fight the illness. But, after taking care of his
grandparents for so long. Mario and Isabel were
down on their luck and destitute. Since then they
now maintain jobs; Mario's a web designer, and
Isabel's a barista.

Where can I find Heaven Sent Gaming?
at HeavenSentGamin2.c0m

And on social media!

• Twitter @HeavenSentTweet

• Facebook.com/Heaven.Sent.Gaming

• lnstagram.com/hsgmi

How did we find out so much?

The Internet Legends series relies on deep-digging through
references in public records, and on deep-digging through the work sources and
histories of the subjects. This topic was particularly hard to research, though we
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for Heaven Sent Gaming, and wish them luck through to the future. Any subject
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retractions; Heaven Sent Gaming is not any different and should be considered
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This book was directly translated from Japanese,
so it uses Japanese sentence structure. It is translated
with basic grammar for quick-reading and understanding.

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